**** Kirk's ESB Championships 2011 ****

just take your picks from one or more of the following fights;

01/28 - Cristobal Aeerola vs. Joey Abell
01/29 - Devon Alexander vs. Timothy Bradley
01/29 - Argenis Mendez vs. Cassius Baloyi
01/29 - Nkosinathi Joyi vs. Katsunari Takayama
01/31 - Takashi Uchiyama vs. Takashi Miura
01/31 - Ryol Li Lee vs. Akifumi Shimoda

Good luck :good
(and put how they win behind it)

 

Just post your predictions mate. Here's the list.

 

Thanks.


01/28 - Cristobal Aeerola vs. Joey Abell - Chris KO
01/29 - Devon Alexander vs. Timothy Bradley - Devon SD
01/29 - Argenis Mendez vs. Cassius Baloyi - Mendez KO

I have no idea who these people are.
01/29 - Nkosinathi Joyi vs. Katsunari Takayama
01/31 - Takashi Uchiyama vs. Takashi Miura
01/31 - Ryol Li Lee vs. Akifumi Shimoda
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So whats all I got to do?

 

Will do. Thanks

 

Devon Alexander vs. Timothy Bradley- Timothy Bradley by UD
Argenis Mendez vs. Cassius Baloyi- Cassius Baloyi by SD
Nkosinathi Joyi vs. Katsunari Takayama- Nkosinathi Joyi by UD

Alright, I'm a liar I'm just going to do the writeups for the other fights right now because I am fired up for this weekend coming up.

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Alright, we'll start off with the Joyi-Takayama fight. Joyi is a good fighter with a couple of world title belts at 105 already. He's beaten a couple of good fighters in Sammy Gutierrez and in his most recent fight he beat Raul Garcia by a wide UD. From what very little I have seen of Takayama he seems to be a pretty decent opponent. He fought Roman Gonzalez and was beaten by a very wide UD, and he also lost to Yutaka Niida in a very close fight and an entertaining fight as well. Based off that I gotta go with the hometown fighter in Joyi for being the better fighter overall and being in his hometown I dont see how Joyi can lose, especially, with Takayama not having the ability to bring out a 1 punch KO. So, with that I gotta go with Joyi winning by UD.

Then we got on the same card Cassius Baloyi vs Argenis Mendez. Mendez really broke onto the scene last year with his upset win over Martin Honorio, which was on the undercard of Williams-Cintron. So, unfortunatly, I haven't been able to see it because HBO didn't show the fight, but when I heard that Honorio got upset it was very shocking. Considering Honorio was on a roll and Mendez was very much unknown, and still is unknown. I've never been able to see him fight and I still would love to watch that fight against Honorio, but anyway, this fight on paper looks damn good and very very interesting. Mendez looking at his resume his only notable fighter was against Honorio and that's it. Also, that was his only time he was scheduled and fought 12 rounds. It's unbelieveable what he was able to do. So, he brings a big danger just basing this fight off that. Then we got the old vet fom South Africa, Cassius Baloyi. He's got a lot of tread and a lot of names on his resume Fana, Klassen, Arrieta, and Medina just to name a few. This looks to be an interesting fight on paper and I would really love to see it, but anyway, I'll take Baloyi by SD. I think him being at home is a huge advantage and may'be he can take away whatever Mendez did to Honorio.

Then we got the main event of the night. One of the biggest fights that can be made in boxing Timothy Bradley and Devon Alexander are squaring off. After breaking things down and really looking at it I see Bradley dominating this fight from almost start to finish. Bradley is a bulldog and his skills are vastly underrated. He's got great quickness, great skills, decent enough power, good footwork, basically he does everything better than Alexander except in the power department, Alexander has the edge there. Other than that I don't see much of an advantage for Alexander. The only way I see Alexander winning is if he times up Bradley and knocks him out with one punch. He cannot outbox Bradley and I don't think he can out point Bradley for 12 rounds. Alexander is pretty much basic. Jab, jab, cross, jab, jab, cross. And every once in awhile he will throw his money punch, the lead uppercut. He threw it against Urango and we all saw what happen, he didn't throw it against Kotelnik and we all saw what happen. Alexander needs that uppercut if he wants to win and he needs that uppercut to land ala against Urango if he wants to win, and even then Bradley has amazing conditioning and amazing heart. Like I say I think Bradley dominates from almost start to finish, I think Alexander may get a couple of early rounds, but other than that Bradley dominates and wins this one rather easily and then we may see threads flooding with people jumping back on the Bradley bandwagon "Bradley KO's Khan" "Alexander sucks, Bradley's great" etc. you know how it works in the General after a fight. Still though I am pumped for this fight because anything can happen and this is two of the top 3 fighters in the division.

 

:rofl

 

Dan, nice write-ups again:good

 

Arreola KO
Joyi TKO
Uchiyama TKO
Ryol Li Lee TKO